Spotify Data Engineer II reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(88 total reviews)
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Daniel Ek

64% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Data Engineer II employees have rated Spotify with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Data Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Spotify is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Data Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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88 reviews
3.0
Aug 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Awesome benefits and work/life balance. 2. Strong and recognizable brand to work for 3. Cool, fun activities in the NY office 4. Free lunch and snacks

Cons

There is very minimal support in learning new skills that can help with work, especially if you're the most technical on your team. The whole "drive your own development" is completely unhelpful if there is no outline on possible career paths or expectations. There is limited help in growing technical skills. There are a lot trainings on how to be a better manager, but almost nothing on skills that may be helpful for non-managers like Tableau, Python, etc. I really appreciate the colleagues who built "how to get started" docs for different tools, but I had to learn most new skills on my own with lots of Googling. It's embarrassing how little I have developed in my skills since starting here.

2.0
May 15, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people that work here are smart and wonderful, and it's great to get to work on a product beloved around the world. Unparalleled work-life balance and excellent benefits. The company is also very transparent (it's easy for anyone at the company to learn what strategic priorities are).

Cons

Frequent disruptive reorgs, little room for professional growth (people are brought in from the outside rather than being promoted from within), and major growing pains

2.0
May 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, lots of fun travel, and well respected brand and product

Cons

For all the hype from the outside, it can verge on being a s*show from the inside. Too many divisions trying to split work and take credit means lots of infighting and documents galore. And when things don't work, re-orgs kick in and the cycle restarts.

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